Fanatics

Analytics Engineer

Fanatics$90K — $113K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or software engineering, with a hybrid background preferred
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake, SQL, and Python
  • Strong knowledge of dbt for transformation, testing, and documentation
  • Experience with pipeline orchestration tools like Airflow or Dagster
  • Ability to build dashboards and visualizations, preferably with Sigma or similar BI tools
  • Experience working directly with business stakeholders to shape requirements
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for engaging with both engineers and executives
  • Curiosity and adaptability to evolve with the role as it develops

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain reliable data pipelines into Snowflake
  • Implement and manage orchestration flows using Airflow or Dagster
  • Create transformation layers using dbt, ensuring modeling and documentation standards
  • Design and maintain reporting dashboards that meet the needs of business stakeholders
  • Ensure data quality and establish validation practices across reporting surfaces
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data needs and create necessary tools
  • Translate business requirements into clear data specifications and prioritized work
  • Engage in broader engineering tasks on the Sales & Finance team, contributing to product features and integrations

Benefits

  • Access to comprehensive health and wellness plans
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Flexible work environment
  • Engagement with innovative projects in the collectibles space
  • Collaborative culture with hands-on relation building with business leaders
Full Job Description
About the Team

We're looking for an Analytics Engineer to join the Sales & Finance Engineering team at Fanatics Collectibles. This team is the technical backbone for our Commercial, Sales, Strategy, and Finance organizations, and this role sits at the intersection of those business relationships and the data infrastructure that serves them via our internal applications.

You'll spend roughly equal time understanding what our stakeholders need and building the systems that deliver it. That means partnering directly with product managers, finance analysts, and sales ops leaders to translate fuzzy business questions into well-defined data products and then owning the pipeline, transformation, and visualization work that makes those products real.

This isn't a pure platform engineering role or a pure analytics role. We're looking for someone who is comfortable moving between engineering, data and product thinking, curious enough to learn what they don't know, and confident enough to push back when requirements don't make sense yet.

What You'll Do
  • Build and maintain data pipelines that bring data from source systems into Snowflake, with a focus on reliability, observability, and maintainability
  • Implement and manage orchestration flows using Airflow or Dagster
  • Build transformation layers using dbt, including data modeling, testing, and documentation standards
  • Design and maintain Sigma dashboards that serve as the primary reporting surface for our business stakeholders
  • Ensure data quality and consistency across reporting surfaces, establishing validation practices and source-of-truth definitions
  • Partner with Commercial, Sales, Strategy, and Finance stakeholders, product manager and engineering leads to understand data and reporting needs, surface gaps, and build the tools necessary to support
  • Translate business requirements into clear data specs and prioritized work, often without a fully formed brief to start from
  • Communicate proactively with partners explaining tradeoffs, setting expectations, and making complex data concepts accessible
  • Tag into broader engineering work on the Sales & Finance team as needed this could mean contributing to data-oriented product features, reviewing code, or supporting integrations that touch our data layer

What You'll Bring
  • 3-5 years of experience in a analytics engineering, data engineering or software engineering, or a hybrid (preferred)
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake. SQL and Python
  • Strong working knowledge of dbt for transformation, testing, and documentation
  • Experience building and managing pipeline orchestration with Airflow or Dagster
  • Experience building dashboards and data visualizations, ideally with Sigma or a comparable BI tool
  • Exposure to engineering work beyond data, APIs, backend services, or product feature development
  • Demonstrated ability to work directly with business stakeholders, not just receiving tickets, but helping shape what gets built and why
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable in rooms with both engineers and executives
  • A genuine curiosity and willingness to stretch, this role will evolve and we want someone who evolves with it

Nice to Have
  • Familiarity with AWS data services (Glue, S3, Firehose, Kinesis)
  • Experience in a commerce, collectibles, or marketplace environment
  • Experience in an environment where you had to define your own scope and priorities

Why This Role

You'll have real relationships with the business leaders whose decisions depend on the work you do, and you'll have the latitude to shape how data is used across Sales and Finance at Fanatics Collectibles.

Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics email address (including [redacted].com). For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.fanaticsinc.com/careers

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to Los Angeles and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Los Angeles Salary Range

$90,400-$113,000 USD

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to New York City and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

NYC Salary Range

$100,000-$125,000 USD

About Fanatics

Fanatics is a leading retailer of licensed sports merchandise. The company was founded in 1995 and has grown to become the largest online retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise in the world. Fanatics offers a wide range of products, including jerseys, hats, and other apparel, as well as collectibles and memorabilia. The company has partnerships with all major sports leagues and teams, as well as with individual athletes. Fanatics is committed to providing a seamless shopping experience for its customers and has invested heavily in technology and logistics to ensure fast and reliable delivery.
Learn more about Fanatics
Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1995

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